What was the issue with lemmy.zip? It’s well maintained and the blocklist is quite short

If you want an instance not federated with hexbear, grad and ml, then infosec.pub should do it

.zip is on the short list for sure, the Triad federation though is a detractor for me, but not necessarily a deal breaker. I also don’t want to just default to one of the big instances that every one is on

You once told me that power posters like me are essentially de facto advertisers for an instance, so I’m keeping that in mind as I go through these instances. I would like to promote small instances through my posting, so eventually I’ll probably just starting posting from random instance accounts that I’ve already made

Infosec.pub is decent, but was having issues when I went through it. That was either the one that was sporadically going down or the one that was taking 45+ seconds to post every post (I’d have to check my notes). But I discovered, like you said, it defederates from the entire Triad so that’s a big plus. I’ll revisit it for sure to see if the issues I encountered were just bad timing

If you are using alts to federate communities, that’s fine, but keeping posting from one account would be better, those are two different things

Because I post such a wide variety of content, simply posting is an effective way to discover what comms are and are not federated on an instance (short of writing a bot to do it ofc, but whats the fun in that?)

Also, if an instance is missing big communities, the admins probably didn’t bother setting up Lemmy-federate , and users didn’t bother to ask either, so it’s probably a quite low population instance

That’s true for at least one instance I’ve been on, but I honestly think that bot is not as reliable as it seems…